The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger FROM THE PUBLISHER
While working as a nurse amid the squalor of New York's Lower East Side in the early twentieth century, Margaret Sanger witnessed the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancies. Women already overwhelmed by the burdens of poverty had no recourse; their doctors were either ignorant of effective methods of birth control or were unwilling to risk defying the law.
Sanger resolved to dedicate her life to establishing birth control as a basic human right. Her battles brought a world of troubles-arrest, indictment, and exile among them-but ultimately she triumphed, opening the first American birth control clinic in 1916 and serving as the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1953.
A fascinating, firsthand account of an early crusade for women's healthcare, this autobiography us a classic of women's studies and social reform.
SYNOPSIS
In a classic of women's studies and social reform, Sanger (1879- 1966) relates how witnessing the misery caused by unwanted pregnancies as a New York nurse motivated her international crusade for birth control as a basic right. The book was originally published in 1938, by W.W. Norton & Co., NY, under the title Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography; it was first republished by Dover in 1971. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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